Boiled fruit cake - substitute for walnuts

[kittykitty]

Am following a recipe for boiled fruit cake and realised on top of all the fruit I have steeping in tea, it needs 2oz of glace cherries and 1 oz of chopped walnuts. Have neither in the house. Can I make do and substitute ground almonds for this? Don't care much for cherries anyway...

Yes of course in fact ground almonds give a nice moistness to a cake and who needs glace cherrries?

Thanks - did that and it worked out brilliantly for a first go at fruit cake.